Re: CREATE/DROP ROLE transactional? GRANT/REVOKE?

On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 4:31 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 4:06 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> DDL commands in Postgres are
> >> transactional unless their man page explicitly says they're not.
>
> > Could you point to where in the doc this is stated?
>
> For example, for CREATE DATABASE the first "Note" para in [1] is
>
> CREATE DATABASE cannot be executed inside a transaction block.
>
> I don't think we are entirely consistent about whether this is
> mentioned in "Description" or "Notes", but it's there somewhere.
>

Yes, I noticed that, once I read Erik's email (went to GMail's SPAM
folder...).

Still, my little brain didn't leap to the conclusion that other DDLs were
implicitly transactional,
because missing of a note another DDL's doc has. All I'm saying it's not as
obvious as you
experienced PostgreSQL folks seems to think it is. FWIW. Thanks again, --DD